South Alabama Sports

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Baker’s leading scorer Desmond Williams didn’t see it coming when he got poked in the eye and had to leave the game late in the first period Tuesday but Enterprise’s eyes were wide-open. With Williams at the hospital with a bulging bandage on his left eye, the Wildcats staggered the No. 6-ranked Hornets with full-court pressure in the third period and went on to a 69-52 win in the Class 7A South…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — McIntosh never established its inside game Monday and the state tournament, which at one point looked so close, turned out to be as far away as a jump shot from the cheap seats. No. 2-ranked Georgiana beat the Demons 74-55 Monday in a Class 1A South Regional final that was close only for the first few minutes. McIntosh tied it 2-2 on Brittney Reed’s layup off an assist from Jeremiah Lang a minute…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — To say Chauncey Dixon is Leroy’s tower of power is perhaps an understatement given what happened after the tower collapsed in the third period against Elba Monday. Dixon, the Bears’ 6-3 junior center, was enjoying a dominant performance with 13 points and 14 rebounds and had helped Leroy to a 29-24 lead when she crashed to the floor with 4:23 left in the third period. Dixon’s cries of pain echoed throughout the chilly, silent…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Micah Caster’s early foul trouble might have kept No. 1-ranked Jackson from disposing of Andalusia in the first half. But Caster, the Aggies’ leading scorer, shoved the No. 9 Bulldogs toward the exits at Garrett Coliseum when the season weighed on his shoulders. Caster’s long 3-pointer off a screen gave Jackson the lead for good with 2:19 remaining and the Aggies went on to win their 17th straight game, a 65-58 victory Monday…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Jazmine Jones made sure there would be a tomorrow for herself and her Jackson teammates, scoring the first six points of overtime to lead the No. 4-ranked Aggies past Orange Beach 54-48 Monday in the Class 4A girls South Regional semifinals. Jackson (29-4) plays T.R. Miller (22-4) for the fourth time this season in Wednesday’s 4 p.m. regional final at Garrett Coliseum, with the winner going to the state tournament in Birmingham. The…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — UMS-Wright fought back from a 12-point deficit to tie it late but Escambia County’s Stephen Williams made sure the Bulldogs got no further. The 6-9 senior center scored on back-to-back lay-ins to break the tie and finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Blue Devils to a 43-35 win in the Class 4A boys South Regional semifinals Monday at Garrett Coliseum. “(Williams) is a man,” UMS-Wright coach Michael Napp said. “He…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — In his first season at UMS-Wright, coach Terry Canova took his girls team to Brewton and broke T.R. Miller’s 56-game home winning streak, although he was blissfully unaware of the feat. “I had no idea at the time,” Canova said. “It’s probably a good thing or we’d have had that pressure.” In Monday’s Class 4A South Regional semifinal, Canova’s team was on the cusp of another monumental victory over the Tigers, building a…